Job scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

they want you to collect and forward money in any way (a "money mule" job). You'll wind up engaged in money laundering, personally defrauded via expertly forged cheques, money orders, etc, or defrauding someone else who pays for goods that never arrive.

they want you to receive packages and reship them somewhere else. The goods will have been obtained fraudulently, and they're just using you to make the shipping address appear local. You will be aiding fraud.

they want up-front payment (either to them or someone else) of any sort for anything before you can get the job. This is advance fee fraud: there is no job -- it's just a big con to extract money from you.

they want you to buy any kind of "membership" or "kit" in order to start. Forget it -- it's not a real job at all: they're trying to sell you something, and they're probably making a bunch of other false claims about it if they're pitching it as a "job".

it's a job offer, and it's spam. There are LOTS of these scams about, as you can see.

Norway Consulting Group is a consulting company, operating incorporate consulting market since 1997. Our history of success isbased on delivering strategic planning, business - planning, corporatefinancing, marketing activities, management accounting and budgeting,legal consulting results for clients meeting their most rigorousrequirements. Our activities have covered a large number of projectsof various sizes and we expect you to be capable of solving variousadministrative problems and tasks.

Looking to work for an organization that offers a challengingenvironment and excellent benefits? We're always on the lookout forsuccess-driven people to join our team, having a special feeling forsuch business areas as brokerage and dealership at stock exchanges,dealership in a securities market, market research, capitalprocurement for joint investment through emission and allocation ofsecurities to reap full potential of profitability.

If you've got what it takes to excel in management consulting marketand help drive us forward as an organization, rendering high-endprofessional business solutions click on the Financial Manager vacancyor email us.

FINANCIAL MANAGER - Part time positionAn opportunity has arisen to appoint several persons to join theFinancial Managers' team, facilitating transfers of money betweenNorway Consulting Group and our numerous clients worldwide. This parttime opportunity is for a friendly, energetic person to providesuperior customer service and process customer transactions. We offeropportunity for advancement, excellent compensation and benefits, anda great work environment.

You will be responsible for ensuring that bank transfer rules arecomplied with, providing effective and efficient support to ourManagers and customers.We are looking for people who possess the following essential criteria:• 'A' level standard of education• Should have customer service or cashier experience, preferably in abank or credit union• Good knowledge of banking practice, interpreting financial information• Able to use money transfer/payment systems like MoneyGram, Western Union, etc• PC, email, Microsoft word confident user• Good team working skills, good adaptability, good verbal and writtencommunication skills, ability to work to deadlines, good attention todetails.Your efforts and aspiration will be generously rewarded. 2-3 hours aday occupation will bring you 8% commission from the amount of eachprocessed transaction. In return you'll have to strictly follow theprocedure, which is essential to fit for the job:1. Open a bank account (or use the existing one);2. Upon receiving a notice from our manager about money transfer withyour account, promptly apply to your bank and withdraw the sum.3. Immediately go to one of express money transfer agencies(MoneyGram, Western Union) and transfer this sum in accordance withthe details, specified in our notice.4. Log on to the Internet and send us the details of the transfer.5. Receive your 8% commission from the total sum of processedtransfers during one month.

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This blog is an offshoot of iDeceive, which documents deceptive Internet activity. For more general information, please go to that blog. All entries posted here are employment scams. If you've received an email that resembles anything posted here, you'd be well advised to assume that the sender wants to exploit you, not employ you.
Scammers often impersonate real companies. Where real company names are mentioned here, you should assume that a scammer is using that identity fraudulently unless you have strong evidence to the contrary.

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What is a money mule?

The vast majority of job scams seek to recruit money mules, usually under titles like "financial manager", "payment processor", "transaction specialist", or just plain "representative" or even "partner". The job of a money mule is to be a financial middle-man, accepting payment in one form, and forwarding it (minus a fee) to another party, usually via Western Union. Scammers employ money mules to launder money on their behalf: the mule is responsible for converting a fraudulent transaction of some kind into quick, anonymous cash, usually transferred via Western Union or some similar scheme. Scammers send out a lot of job ads for money mule positions and never refuse an applicant because they are disposable: money mules either get ripped off directly (as when they are persuaded to bank a forged cheque or money order which is later dishonoured by the bank), or take the blame for defrauding someone else (as with most payments involving direct bank transfer, PayPal, or similar). Don't make an ass of yourself: don't be a money mule.